Archive for the ‘Ruby’ Category

RubyFoo London 2009

On October 2nd and 3rd RubyFoo London 2009 is happening. According to the speakers table I think this is going to be a good conference.
As I am one of the leaders of the ruby user group Karlsruhe I am proud to announce a 10%-off promotion code for anyone interested going to RubyFoo.
The promotion code: RUGKarlsruhe_RubyFoo
The [...]

Give your tests some love - cruisecontrol.rb, rails, git, rcov, unit tests and cucumber

Long time passed since I wrote my last blog post. Things happened and I was very busy. But now I have some news to write about.
Refactoring my current project mysedcard.tv produced a bunch of cucumber features. Those are great and I love to see them running in my console. But that can’t be enough so [...]

Playing with Unit::Test, Shoulda, Factory Girl, autotest, growl and redgreen

Since my first steps with rails I was used to write rspec tests / specifications. I was never that happy about it. Can’t say exactly why. I think it was just a “personal” thing. About two weeks ago I finally gave shoulda and his buddies a try. So here’s what I have done.
Installation
First I had [...]

rubular - nice ruby regular expression editor

if you need to deal with regular expressions in ruby and you aren’t a regex pro (as I am) - or event though - check out rubular. Rubular is an online regular expression editor which may help you get your stuff done quicker. It helped me a lot so I decided to write a line [...]

RailsWayCon in Berlin

Update: check out Karlsruhes’ ruby and rails usergroup for a free ticket sponsored by Software & Support Media!!
RailsWayCon is taking place end of May (25th - 27th) organized by Software & Support Media. As the O’Reilly Rails Conf Europe is not happening in 2009 they helped out a set up this conference for the [...]

fighting with git svn and setting up my own git server with gitosis

the last hour I set up my own git server and finally moved my current project mysedcard.tv to git. You may ask “Setting up a git server … isn’t that much work to do?”. Actually,  it’s not.
What happenend: I used git svn to use git locally and svn on my server as I started with [...]